Meaning: "All the falfe as well as fooliih Concluﬁons, Afrom a particular to an univerfal Truth, fall under the Cenfure of this Proverb. It teaches, that as he that gueﬁes at the Courfe of the Year by the Flight of one ﬁngle Bird, is very liable to be miﬁaken in his Conjeéture; fo alfo a Man cannot be denominated Rich from one ﬁngle Piece of Money in his Pocket, nor accounted univerfally good from the Practice of one ﬁngle Virtue, nor temperate: becaufe he is ﬂout, nor liberal becaufe he is exactly juft: that one Day cannot render a Man completely happy in point of Time, nor one Action confummate his Glory in Point of Valour. In fhort, the Moral of it is, That the right way of Judging of Things, beyond Impoﬁtion and Fallacy, is not from Particulars, but Univerfals."